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Bruce Arnold: Columns

Bruce Arnold has been a political journalist in Ireland since 1962, contributing to The Guardian, Hibernia, The Sunday Press, The Sunday Independent and other publications. He worked full-time for the Irish Independent, starting in 1972 as Political Commentator. He wrote a weekly Political Column and an Arts Column and was the paper’s chief Theatre Critic. A selection of these articles may be read here. During and since the Referendum on the Lisbon Treaty he has written extensively on the subject and these articles are collected together here for the first time.